So I purchased a desktop dock charger from Best Buy for my 3d. Works great except for one thing. Each night in the middle of the night my phone screen turns on. I have it in dock mode and the screen just stays on. For me it's not a problem, I sleep like a rock. But my wife is about to throw my dock away. It's happened with different roms almost every night... I remember one night that it didn't happen. Anyone have an idea as to what may be causing this? Doesn't happen when I'm just plugged into the wall charger.
GadgetMonger said:
So I purchased a desktop dock charger from Best Buy for my 3d. Works great except for one thing. Each night in the middle of the night my phone screen turns on. I have it in dock mode and the screen just stays on. For me it's not a problem, I sleep like a rock. But my wife is about to throw my dock away. It's happened with different roms almost every night... I remember one night that it didn't happen. Anyone have an idea as to what may be causing this? Doesn't happen when I'm just plugged into the wall charger.
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I may be misinterpreting the issue but dock mode is supposed to keep the phone awake. Thats why it shows the weather in the background as well as a clock and other information. It is trying to mimick a desktop clock. It automatically dims the screen after so many minutes which is user configurable if you press menu then settings in dock mode. The screen will undim itself typically when recieving some form of notification. Lastly you can just tap the x button on the lower left corner of the screen to exit dock mode and have the phone sleep like normal or in the settings disable dock mode from starting whenever you place it in the dock. Hope that information helps.
Cordy said:
I may be misinterpreting the issue but dock mode is supposed to keep the phone awake. Thats why it shows the weather in the background as well as a clock and other information. It is trying to mimick a desktop clock. It automatically dims the screen after so many minutes which is user configurable if you press menu then settings in dock mode. The screen will undim itself typically when recieving some form of notification. Lastly you can just tap the x button on the lower left corner of the screen to exit dock mode and have the phone sleep like normal or in the settings disable dock mode from starting whenever you place it in the dock. Hope that information helps.
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Thanks. That's correct. The info I was for though is why is my phone waking up in the first place. Just once a night like clockwork.
I guess don't understand either. You're saying correct to the fact that dock mode keeps the phone awake, but then asking why is your phone awake.
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Maybe hes asking how to you have the screen go off at night? I too am using a dock, the Seido one. And its great during the day, but at night, I would like the screen to stay off, because obviously I'm not looking at it during the night so why keep it lit up (and its bright).
I press the sleep button at the top of the phone and it will turn off the display on the dock, and it doesn't go back on till my alarm goes off in the morning, but it would be nice if you could see it to go off automatically at a certain time at night if docked.
howie411 said:
Maybe hes asking how to you have the screen go off at night? I too am using a dock, the Seido one. And its great during the day, but at night, I would like the screen to stay off, because obviously I'm not looking at it during the night so why keep it lit up (and its bright).
I press the sleep button at the top of the phone and it will turn off the display on the dock, and it doesn't go back on till my alarm goes off in the morning, but it would be nice if you could see it to go off automatically at a certain time at night if docked.
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Tasker should be able to do this no problem... right?
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I guess don't understand either. You're saying correct to the fact that dock mode keeps the phone awake, but then asking why is your phone awake.
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Let me try to clarify. I know once my screen is on in dock mode it is supposed to stay on. My question is what is turning my screen on in the middle of the night when it's off to begin with. I would suspect some app running in the background, but it only happens when my phone is on the dock in dock mode. Just plugged into the wall charger the screen stays off all night.
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Tasker should be able to do this no problem... right?
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Yup. But in order to get Tasker to take care of this I would need to know what event is triggering the turning on of my screen wouldn't I? I have no clue what that might be. That's my question.
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Let me try to clarify. I know once my screen is on in dock mode it is supposed to stay on. My question is what is turning my screen on in the middle of the night when it's off to begin with. I would suspect some app running in the background, but it only happens when my phone is on the dock in dock mode. Just plugged into the wall charger the screen stays off all night.
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It sounds like an app or, more likely a notification that makes it wake up and since it is in dock mode, once it is awake the screen will stay on until you manually turn it off. The simple solution is to exit dock mode before you go to sleep
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Try putting it in airplane mode? Although there's probably easier ways of figuring out when apps are waking the phone up (and what apps are they). I think the phone also does that when it reaches full charge doesn't it?
Get System Panel from the Market. It will slow you what apps are doing what and when they are doing it. You should be able to see a spike in the graph at the time your phone is awaking every night. System Panel is an amazing app for figuring out wake-lock issues amongst many many other things. I'll run it for 2-3 days to gather the info that I need and then stop it until needed again to keep it from using battery.
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Get System Panel from the Market. It will slow you what apps are doing what and when they are doing it. You should be able to see a spike in the graph at the time your phone is awaking every night. System Panel is an amazing app for figuring out wake-lock issues amongst many many other things. I'll run it for 2-3 days to gather the info that I need and then stop it until needed again to keep it from using battery.
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Thanks for the input all. Yeah system panel is a must have, been using it since the OG EVO. It's not showing me what's triggering my screen though. It's got to have something to do with dock mode I'm thinking. Turned it off for the night last night and no screen on. Of course that happened once while in dock mode as well so I'll go with out it again tonight to confirm. Maybe the combination of dock mode and another app running in the background. I know there's things I can do to work around this, it's just me wanting things to work like they should I guess...
I can't find a dock at BestBuy.
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I'm currently using the Telus version of this phone (SGH-959D) and i'm finding it rather annoying that the home key backlight turns off very very quickly. Can anyone suggest an app (maybe make one?) that would keep the backligh on when the screen is active (adjustable brightness?)
I'm currently running 2.2 and have rooted the phone.
some people told me that the DISPLAY activates the buttons to light up, and messing with the screen it-self is very dangerous and most people wouldn't do it, but idk if theres a app/program to do this yet i'd love it as well. its making me go blind at night when im reading a book on my phone lol
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some people told me that the DISPLAY activates the buttons to light up, and messing with the screen it-self is very dangerous and most people wouldn't do it, but idk if theres a app/program to do this yet i'd love it as well. its making me go blind at night when im reading a book on my phone lol
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I'm mostly having problems when using the navigate in the car at night, the screen stays on, but the buttons go right out, so it's guess work on wether you are hitting the home button or the menu button. I could see similar problems when using other apps that leave the screen on for an extended period of time.
Running the newest UnNamed and I'm trying to find a way to keep the screen on while charging from USB. The point is to keep the screen on while driving. At night I charge with AC power so that's not an issue.
I found posts saying there was a burn in problem with SMOLED screens being on with a static image for more than a couple minutes at a time. I haven't seen it personally but if anyone has first hand experience with this phone or the international model, please speak up before I damage my phone.
Otherwise, once again, it looks like I need Tasker for the job. Have it detect bluetooth connection for the car and upon usb power trigger car mode and keep the screen on at ~50% brightness. something like that.
With unnamed go to Settings>Applications>Development and click Stay Awake.
Try this first,
Menu->settings->Applications ->Development -> Stay awak
If not working , try this
Menu->settings->Display->Screen Timeout ->Never
Now I've never seen permanent burn in on my SGSII or Nexus One (even while on constantly during a 10h drive to Vegas). I was using a stop watch app on my Nexus One, and while only on for 5 minutes or so, I did see it burn in, but it went away after a few minutes of being off (boy was I scared when I first saw it though).
Now, I have personally seen permanent burn-in on a Vibrant (not mine).
Funny thing is the screen timeout is set to like 5 seconds on it, so it's barely on. Yet I can clearly see the clock is burned into the screen.
Have you tried running a car app to hold a screen lock? I know Google Maps can do that. Plus it doesn't require going into settings (at least more than once).
EDIT: As a simple observation, the burn-in seems worse when it's white on a black background.
My phone's always-on display will turn off. I can't bring it out of it's 'slumber' anyway other than plugging it in. It instantly pops out of sleep and works fine. I'll lock it and while I can see the always-on display the fingerprint reader will unlock it with no problems. This just started in the past hour for me. I've tried resetting the phone and the issue still pops up, and quickly at that.
Are you using a case or screen protector? Could be something interfering with the ambient light or proximity sensor causing the phone to think it's in your pocket at all times?
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Actually just tested this. Covered the top sensors and the always on display turned off and fingerprint sensor no longer worked just like you described
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duckysempai said:
Are you using a case or screen protector? Could be something interfering with the ambient light or proximity sensor causing the phone to think it's in your pocket at all times?
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Actually just tested this. Covered the top sensors and the always on display turned off and fingerprint sensor no longer worked just like you described
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You may be right about that. I'm using a lifeproof case and I had just opened it up to clean off the inside (I had shown someone the phone earlier and dog hair found its way to the inside of the case). Funny thing is I turned it completely off and let it sit for a time, as opposed to the restart I did earlier, and it's working alright now. Maybe I just needed to reset it's calibration by resetting it?
Anyone know how to disable this weird dependence on the light sensor? I just don't understand why it would ever disable itself because it's dark.
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My phone's always-on display will turn off. I can't bring it out of it's 'slumber' anyway other than plugging it in. It instantly pops out of sleep and works fine. I'll lock it and while I can see the always-on display the fingerprint reader will unlock it with no problems. This just started in the past hour for me. I've tried resetting the phone and the issue still pops up, and quickly at that.
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I read this is a feature of the phone. The always on will turn off in your pocket or in a darkened room. Nice idea since you do not need to be using the juice then. You can test this in a dimmly lit room by cupping your hands over the display to block the light.
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I read this is a feature of the phone. The always on will turn off in your pocket or in a darkened room. Nice idea since you do not need to be using the juice then. You can test this in a dimmly lit room by cupping your hands over the display to block the light.
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Sure, but it won't turn on even when I press the back button. Pretty obnoxious when I'm sitting in a blacked out room and I have to hold it up to the computer screen to activate it.
Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't read the thread carefully. That sucks. I'm in a dark room now watching video. The display turned off, I heard a notification, when I picked up the phone it came on. I do not like that that the led notifications stop. I'm not sure what happens to sound notifications when the always on goes off. I prefer to set the phone silent until a certain time in the AM and then use a sound profile to get notifications and a low volume.
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Sure, but it won't turn on even when I press the back button. Pretty obnoxious when I'm sitting in a blacked out room and I have to hold it up to the computer screen to activate it.
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I would return it for another or send it in on warranty.
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I would return it for another or send it in on warranty.
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I'm thinking it was the Lifeproof case I have on it. It all worked fine for a week then when I tested the case for waterproof it failed (the phone wasn't in it). I sent for another one and it seems to be working alright now. Maybe it had something to do with the inside of my case getting wet? I don't know.
Great! Enjoy your phone g why are we still calling these things phone?). I like the G5. Now that we have torur I am hoping their for some nice tweaks.
I've had this happen too and it made my life proof case useless because I couldn't use my phone with it on it I still have the issue once in a while but not nearly as often anymore
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Hi all,
Since Android Wear 2.0 the dock mode while charging with clock doesn't work any longer. When placing Moto on the dock it shows a black screen. When touching the screen de clock appears for a moment and vanishes after about 1.5 seconds. It appears to be a bug. Do you all have this bug or is it just me. Did anyone tried a reset of the watch? I would really like to able to fix it , cause I use that feature a lot.
Same here.
A temporary solution I have found is to enable in developer options 'stay awake while charging' now it stays on. But it is not the same. The display appears to be much brighter. probably because ambient mode (Not sure that's how its called) is not enabled.
Edit: That appears to be the fix. When turning on in settings 'always on display' it works like before. no need to enable stay awake while charging in developers settings.
Although this fixes the issue, I am somewhat disappointed because this option reduces battery life.
I noticed I should have put this question into 'troubleshoot and questions'. I am sorry for placing it here. Perhaps a moderator can place it in the right section for me?
Not a problem here.
Always on is normally activated.
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I've noticed the same behavior when I upgraded my Moto 360 to AW 2.0
For me, the clock stays on but the background is really bright whereas it used to be black before
Same thing here, background to bright. I don't think this is on purpose. They would probably get out fixed in an upcoming patch(?)
Same here.
I liked docking my watch on my bathroom counter and using it as my clock while getting ready in morning. Now it doesn't stay on and when I tap the screen I can see it for a few seconds. When it is on ....the brightness of the background is terrible.
I sure hope they fix this problem.
I have the same problem
Can't believe there is still no fix for this?
This is really annoying! I was hoping XDA had found an answer. Having always on screen on is not a solution since Moto made a bad design decision on the screen making it best to turn that option off. I assume everyone else's keep awake while charging option doesn't really solve it either because the screen turns off once the battery is full. Anyone think there's a workaround to be found in Tasker and maybe AutoInput (maybe turn always on screen on while charging, off otherwise, or even based on hours). I'm no tasker expert, so I'm not sure if that combo could work on android wear.
Sn0w0nS said:
Hi all,
Since Android Wear 2.0 the dock mode while charging with clock doesn't work any longer. When placing Moto on the dock it shows a black screen. When touching the screen de clock appears for a moment and vanishes after about 1.5 seconds. It appears to be a bug. Do you all have this bug or is it just me. Did anyone tried a reset of the watch? I would really like to able to fix it , cause I use that feature a lot.
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I have found this to be an issue when I use a charger that is not the Motorola plug that came with the watch. If you switch to the Motorola OEM charger you'll see a lag of about one to two seconds but the clock will always come on.
sebastianraven said:
I have found this to be an issue when I use a charger that is not the Motorola plug that came with the watch. If you switch to the Motorola OEM charger you'll see a lag of about one to two seconds but the clock will always come on.
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Not on mine. I'm using the factory charger.
vladfan said:
Not on mine. I'm using the factory charger.
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That's so odd. I'm not having that problem at all
sebastianraven said:
I have found this to be an issue when I use a charger that is not the Motorola plug that came with the watch. If you switch to the Motorola OEM charger you'll see a lag of about one to two seconds but the clock will always come on.
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I am using Motorola's dock charger. I am positive that the issue lies with Android Wear 2.0 and not the charger. Before wear 2.0 it worked as it should.
I think it's random with AW2.
After flashing a new rom at my mobile, I had to forget and pair again the watch to the Android wear.
From now on, the clock stays on during charging.
This was not the case before that.
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I have the very same issue (watch paired with a Nexus 4, 5.1.1). Anything I can try? Thanks!
Well, at least this is validation for me. It's been driving me insane, and I'm almost positive it's killing my battery life. I used to be able to stretch a full week on a single charge, but now it's more like a full day.
I'm sure this is what everyone else has been experiencing: there is now a setting called "Always on screen" in Android wear settings. The new behavior for this setting is a strict enforcement of this property; that is, to be either always on or auto off. This seems absurd because before Android wear 2 (not sure if the option existed or not), it seemed to work as we expected, to auto off in active wear but stay lit while docked. There should at the very least be another mode for when docked/standby vs active wear.
Something else that makes it seem buggy is that when the always on screen option is disabled, and the watch is docked and charging, the screen is still faintly lit although only a blank black and no clock. I do think this is a bug and not a feature. For anyone interested, there are also settings for other things you might not be using. I'm turning them off and pray the battery gets better.
wesswei said:
Well, at least this is validation for me. It's been driving me insane, and I'm almost positive it's killing my battery life. I used to be able to stretch a full week on a single charge, but now it's more like a full day.
I'm sure this is what everyone else has been experiencing: there is now a setting called "Always on screen" in Android wear settings. The new behavior for this setting is a strict enforcement of this property; that is, to be either always on or auto off. This seems absurd because before Android wear 2 (not sure if the option existed or not), it seemed to work as we expected, to auto off in active wear but stay lit while docked. There should at the very least be another mode for when docked/standby vs active wear.
Something else that makes it seem buggy is that when the always on screen option is disabled, and the watch is docked and charging, the screen is still faintly lit although only a blank black and no clock. I do think this is a bug and not a feature. For anyone interested, there are also settings for other things you might not be using. I'm turning them off and pray the battery gets better.
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What r u talking about?
Always On was there since Android Wear 1.5.
And come again?
1 week use of the watch with 1 charge?
How did u manage to do that?
By turning on the watch for 2 hours every day?
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I notice when the screen on the Tab S6 sleeps, text notification of the battery charge level will persist on the screen. This only happens if the USB power adapter is connected to the tablet and "screen saver" is disabled. The text remains fixed at a consist location (bottom center) of the screen, and remains for the whole time the device is sleeping.
My concern is that this text will eventually cause SCREEN BURN-IN.
MY PROBLEM ...
Display off, with wall adapter powering ON
. Screen is blank except for battery charge state is permanently displayed
. Bottom of screen shows "100% / Fully charged"
. My fear is this will eventually cause SCREEN BURN-IN of the displayed text.
MY SOLUTION ...
Make a black JPG file, which is used for screen saver, during sleep.
. Place a JPG file in folder: \DCIM\ScnSaver
. JPG file should be sized as 2560x1600, with pure black content.
Display > Screensaver > ON/OFF
. Photo frame ON.
. Select photo frame from folder "ScnSaver"
APP FOR SLEEPING
. Optionally, Install from App Store, "Screen Off Trial", by Iwashi Soft.
. This app will sleep the device and activate screen saver.
. Many other "screen/power off" apps will not activate the screen saver.
Yes. Same issue with the Note 10/+.
No need to worry. Assuming Samsung is still doing the same thing, it will occasionally move the text around.
MrPhilo said:
No need to worry. Assuming Samsung is still doing the same thing, it will occasionally move the text around.
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I watched the charging notification on my N10+ and it does not move. At all.
And even if it just moves a pixel or two in any direction,nitnwikl still burn in over that area.
Mr. Orange 645 said:
I watched the charging notification on my N10+ and it does not move. At all.
And even if it just moves a pixel or two in any direction,nitnwikl still burn in over that area.
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It will not burn in that area. It does move the pixel around, it's the same for Note 10 series. I'm sure Samsung should by now already know how to combat screen burn in.
MrPhilo said:
It will not burn in that area. It does move the pixel around, it's the same for Note 10 series. I'm sure Samsung should by now already know how to combat screen burn in.
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Even if it moves a little (it doesn't), it doesn't move the whole charge icon. Just a couple pixels to the side leave about 90% of the pixels in the same place, so Ilit will eventually burn in.
By the way, I'm holding a N10+ in my hands right now, and the charge notification does NOT move.
I found this issue last night as well. I share your concern. I'm likely going to be powering the tablet down for overnight charging till this is addressed more completely.
I really don't understand this. I have changed of course. All time screen off. When wake it up, it said fully charged...
Then it must be a question of a setting. I'll go looking for it tonight.
nathanotis said:
Then it must be a question of a setting. I'll go looking for it tonight.
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If it's like the Note 10, there's no setting to turn it off. But there is a work around.
Go to Display settings and turn on screensaver. Set it to "Photo," but don't hit the settings icon next to it or point it toward your Google Photos. That way, it won't have a pic to load for the screensaver and will instead load a black screen.
When you plug it in, it will time out to the screen saver, which will be a black screen WITHOUT the charge notification.
If it doesn't time out to screensaver, just wake the screen up then let it time out on its own.
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If it's like the Note 10, there's no setting to turn it off. But there is a work around.
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Thanks for the information, but if I understood the previous poster, this issue is not happening on their tablet. Tells me it may be a settings thing.
I am on vacation, tab not with me. I will check when back
nathanotis said:
I found this issue last night as well. I share your concern. I'm likely going to be powering the tablet down for overnight charging till this is addressed more completely.
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Except that even when powered down, they screen lights up showing it is charging....
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Except that even when powered down, they screen lights up showing it is charging....
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Interesting. Mine lights up temporarily showing that it *is* charging, but that light turns off after 19 seconds or so and does not turn back on.
Of course
nathanotis said:
Interesting. Mine lights up temporarily showing that it *is* charging, but that light turns off after 19 seconds or so and does not turn back on.
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Ok, I'll try again, maybe I just didn't wait long enough. Thanks!